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lUNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

MORIIMER S. HARSHA, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF, BUFUS S.

SANBORN, AND H. B. JONES, OF SAME PLAGE.

GHURN.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MOETIMER S. HAESHA of Sycamore, county of Dekalb, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Machine called Vertical Rotating and Stationary Break Churn for the Purpose of Churning Cream or Milk; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, exact, and clear description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters marked thereon, and in which- A, A, A, A, is a perspective view of side and bottom of a cream receiver resting on a vertical or upright shaft. C, is said shaft resting or turning in a socket at its lower end.

H is brace to vertical shaft forming also its journal boX.

G is gear wheel at right angle with a pinion on said shaft, and by which it is revolved.

E is bottom of the machine, on which rests the bearing of gearing, brace, shaft, and supports for top or cover.

F F, are supports to said top, or cover. B, B, is stationary break dash made fast to said top near the inner side of said cream receiver, and running downward nearly to its bottom. Y

The nature of my invention consists in providinga small and entirely stationary break dash, so arranged and combined with a cream receiver made to rotate on a vertical or upright shaft, having a point bearing at the bottom, that by this means and arrangement there is a very great economizing or saving of power necessary to be applied in other and ordinary modes of churning. This is accomplished by. said break presenti ing only a small resisting surface to the moving cream, while the cream being made to rapidly rotate on said vertical or upright shaft only against said break dash, becomes, along with its receiver, a receptacle of the power applied, similar to that of a balance wheel, and so by its own accumulative force, when power is once applied, puts it in motion, assists in operating either a small or large machine, insuring, at the same time, a

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rapid and even agitation of the liquid mass,

mixing air with the same to produce the iny tended result. y v y p To enable others skilledin the artto make and use my invention, `I will proceed to de` l* l scribe its construction and operation. l

I construct my cream receiver of tin`,`znc,l z

wood or any other materialin common use,

in the form of a shortcylnder or tube, and

support the same on a vertical `orupright.

shaft by means of a flange. I construct the shaft aforesaid of ironfor steel having it rest or turn in' a socket:` at itslower `end`,\and` made at said end small, as toa point, to lessen i friction. l I supportlsaid shaft `byla brace l e51 covering up two thirds or more of its height which also forms a Journal box for said shaft. I rotate the vertical `shaftand cream receiver by means of a gear wheel at right` l angle with apinion, which I "placegonfsaidiff shaft just below theplange for receiver.l I apply a short crank` to shaft of gearwheel, M111 and operate the same by hand, or other attach a narrow stationarybreak dash to said top or cover by means of a mortise and downward near the side of the cream receiver, on its inner surface, nearly toits bottom. This break I construct of` wood or;

`85 such size as the relative size of the machine other material in common use, making it of requires, and of any common form or shape. What I claim asmy invention, and `desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An entirely stationary break dash in comi described, and for the purposes set forth. l

Witnesses: y

J. B. FRENCH, `J'Ij.`,` H. B. DIcKrNsoN.

tenon, or by screw and nut, s o that itruns,

aofi bination with a cream receiver, made to rof i tate on a vertical or upright shaft, as above `MoETIMEEs. 

